With a bigger budget and a more coherent plot this could've been a five star film but as it stands its still a well done bleak sci-fi thriller from France.
Abdelkader Dahou, Antonin Bastian, Arben Bajraktaraj
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, h...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009
Stats: 263 reviews
Flixster Reviews (263)
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June 21, 2009
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March 19, 2009
Like other French Sci-Fi movies such as Dante 01 and Chrysalis this is all about the atmosphere. Dark, brooding, impressive designs. It's like a concept artists sketchbook just exploded on screen. Unfortunately this results in a story that is lacking in terms of originality. It f...( read more)
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June 27, 2009
Silly French sci-fi gubbins about a man who wakes up in the dark and spends the next 90 minutes crawling around in the dark trying to find out what's going on only to be eaten by a giant tree at the end. I get the religious metaphors, but there's so much pretentiousness in this f...( read more)
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May 20, 2009
This movie is an intense experience. You literally feel like you are in a maze with the main character, the cinematography, very dim lighting and coloring, clostrophobic feel, and lack of dialog really make this film look and feel great. But alltogether it is not a great movie, i...( read more)
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November 19, 2009
OMG! Brilliant! It starts off with very quick edits from a black, blank screen to what might be a monster emerging out of the mud. As the opening titles roll on towards their end, the emerging shots get longer and the blank screens get shorter. It's our hero, and we sit through t...( read more)
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September 26, 2009
Interesting for a new sci-fi: claustrophobic, kind of a comb of THE CUBE & LOGANS RUN. But I still dont see how 1 tree can POWER a whole city.
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